Health

Bronze Age humans have been credited with a number of civilizational advancements: the invention of irrigation, the wheel, writing systems and the ability to forge weapons and tools from the durable metal...

One of the first things she noticed was how she had to keep clearing her throat. Everyone does it every now and then, but for her, a healthy woman in her early...

Chinese government scientists on Wednesday published a long-awaited study about a market in the city of Wuhan, acknowledging that animals susceptible to the coronavirus were there around the time the virus emerged....

WASHINGTON — The Food and Drug Administration plans to allow older and immunocompromised Americans to get a second updated coronavirus booster shot in the near future, an acknowledgment of the virus’s continuing...

For decades, scientific studies suggested moderate drinking was better for most people’s health than not drinking at all, and could even help them live longer.A new analysis of more than 40 years...

"There is only one corner of the universe you can be certain of improving, and that's your own self." – Aldous Huxley Two years ago, when I decided to take up swimming...

Two concurrent outbreaks of the Marburg virus, a close cousin of Ebola that can kill as many as 90 percent of the people it infects, are raising critical questions about the behavior...

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention has warned people to stop using “artificial tear” eye drops sold by EzriCare or Delsam Pharma, noting that an “extensively” antibiotic-resistant Pseudomonas aeruginosa bacteria has...

In June 2020, Senator Chuck Grassley, Republican of Iowa, held an oversight hearing on the F.D.A.’s foreign inspection process, noting that the plants were given 12 weeks’ advance notice, “plenty of time...

On Thursday, a federal judge in Texas struck down a crucial Affordable Care Act policy: the mandate that private health insurers fully cover preventive care services at no cost to patients.The ruling...